Deep Earth Academy, the U.S. education arm of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), has been awarded a $284,217 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and establish a project entitled “Ship To Shore Science: The R/V JOIDES Resolution As A Platform For Learning.”

School of Rock, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s (IODP) successful educator training expeditions on the JOIDES Resolution, hosted a review summit for the first five cohorts of the program.

This month, the JOIDES Resolution completed a transit through the Panama Canal and will remain in tie-up until September 16, 2011. During this period, Deep Earth Academy will host a review summit for the last five cohorts of the School of Rock program.

Deep Earth Academy (DEA) has had a busy month of March. Early in the month, DEA hosted a booth and multiple presentations at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) meeting in San Francisco, California.

Deep Earth Academy has just completed the 2010 School of Rock, which took place onboard the JOIDES Resolution during the IODP Cascadia ACORK expedition, 50 miles off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada.

As part of the Juan de Fuca Hydrogeology Expedition, a team of six Outreach Officers is working onboard the JOIDES Resolution to develop innovative learning and teaching tools designed to facilitate the communication of scientific drilling results to broad audiences.

Deep Earth Academy (DEA) has spent the month of June preparing for upcoming expeditions onboard the JOIDES Resolution.

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s (IODP) education program, Deep Earth Academy (I-DEA), continues to focus on planning a series of education activities for IODP expeditions this summer and fall.

[ January 17, 2010 to January 21, 2010. ] http://www.oceanleadership.org/education/deep-earth-academy/educators/school-of-rock/

School of Rock (SOR) is the adventure of a lifetime. Educators learn about scientific ocean drilling alongside scientists and technicians who have sailed aboard the JOIDES Resolution.

(Washington, D.C.) – The JOIDES Resolution (JR) Expedition 321T that cemented reentry cones around subseafloor borehole observatories and hosted the School of Rock 2009 teacher workshop, has docked.

Expedition 321T will cement reentry cones around subseafloor borehole observatories in Holes U1301A and U1301B in order to seal the systems and permit later completion of long-term hydrogeologic, monitoring, and sampling experiments. There is no scientific program during Expedition 321T; only observatory sealing operations will be conducted.